我真的覺得你想太多了

我也從原文斷章取義如下
If you're deploying Windows Vista, and you're taking advantage of the security and manageability and productivity advances that we've got there, we're going to work, we are going to protect that investment for you, and you can utilize that.
(如果你在用Vista,...我們會保障你的投資)

If you're just starting your testing of Vista, with the release candidate and the quality of that offering, I would switch over and do your testing on the release candidate, and use that going forward.
(如果你剛開始測Vista...我會改去測RC)

If you're waiting for Windows 7, holiday broad availability, that's what we're tracking for. Obviously, quality is job number one, and we will hold if we think we have quality issues. But we're tracking very, very well to holiday. But go, go check it out now.
(如果你在等Win7...我們也在密切注意...)

而在原文中這段，講者是在說明兩件事中的：
1.Application compatibility(<--這件事)
2.When are we going to ship？

從頭到尾講者只有提到
Vista的好處和Windows7的更好處
沒有提到放棄Vista
更沒有提到回收這種字眼

所以
我真的覺得你想太多了...

喔, 斷章取義? 連微軟的麻吉Gartner也這樣下標題的:
http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3820681/Gartner+Deployed+Vista+No+Skip+to+Windows+7.htm
我特地googling了一下:
標題是: Ballmer: Vista a 'work in progress'
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/359541_msftmvp18.html

微軟一直希望Vista的推出能發揮行銷學上Cannibalization效應, 結果卻相反, 雖然從Linux手上贏了Netbook的市場, 卻搞亂了市場戰略與失去了龐大利潤. 所以呢, 當Ubuntu 9.10和其他Linux Desktop Distribution來勢洶洶, Microsoft必須不計一切保住江山. 因此只好要求客戶別轉換到Vista(或XP), 既然Vista要被丟棄, 就名正言順的要求: 給我Windows 7吧!

I'm too old to 爭論什麼
VISTA是失敗產品或微軟是邪惡帝國

您愛怎麼認為是您的自由 ^_^

您言重了, 我未說過"VISTA是失敗產品或微軟是邪惡帝國", 我只是把微軟說的在此重複一遍, 請不要亂貼標籤.

我很尊重任何一家合法的軟體公司, 我只是希望我不要用Vista而改用windows 7. 我的標題也是希望微軟能尊重消費者.

買都買了，就只能罵罵而已，當初買windows送IE都被別人罵得半死，還違反托辣斯法案，現在你要說買vista送win7，微軟恐怕會被告到倒閉吧。

國外沒有那麼有良心的律師
會為了幫打這種升級的官司
總不能叫買vista的人，一人湊個100塊，大家出資去告吧

買軟體、作規劃沒有評估就會有這種怨由人的評論，你有權決定買與不買，對方有權決定賣與不賣，若是如此，可以等到window 8、9或是再輪到2000也可